BROOKLYN, MI – The Columbia School Board is getting two new members, one with a familiar face and another who’s lived in the Columbia School District less than two years but is an active school parent.

Incumbents Doug Schedeler and Shawn Martin were not re-elected to their positions in Tuesday’s election. Instead, Garry Lee Applegate and Kellie Sullivan will fill two six-year terms.

Applegate, 66, is owner of Applegate Heating and AC. He spent eight previous years on the board, five of them as its president. Sullivan, 43, moved into the district in June 2011 and is active on the Columbia Middle School PTO.

Both agree that the district’s finances, technology resources and community relations were important factors in their seeking the board seats.

“I’m very excited at this opportunity,” said Sullivan, manager of Sacred Touch Massage in Brooklyn. “We need to move forward in improving our school situation. I believe there are creative ways to get the services and things our kids need despite a tight budget.”

Schedeler, 62, has served on the Columbia board from 1995-2003 and 2005 to the present. He’s also a member of the Jackson County Intermediate School District Board. Martin, 43, was appointed in June 2011 to fill a board seat vacated by the resignation of longtime member Martha Kelly Spicer.

“I’m very disappointed,” Schedeler said. “It’s hard to say what happened, but it looks like it was a decision to vote the incumbents out.”

Unofficial vote totals, including district precincts in Lenawee, Hillsdale and Washtenaw counties are 2, 120 for Applegate, 1,908 for Sullivan, 1,708 for Schedeler and 1, 704 for Martin.

In Jackson County’s other contested school board races, incumbent Brian Philson held onto his Concord School Board seat with 1,101 votes. He’ll be joined by Christine Ropp, who had 1,387 votes. Each will serve six-year terms. A third candidate, Tony Lee Brooks had 1,047 votes.

In Napoleon, incumbents Terry Sullivan and Judith Bostedor were re-elected to two six-year terms with 2,289 and 2,142 votes, respectively. They were challenged by Scarlett Turvey, who had 1,073 votes.

In Springport’s only contested race, a partial term ending in 2014, Don Hoaglin defeated George Johnson. Hoaglin had been appointed to this unexpired term after being defeated in a re-election attempt last year.

Unofficial vote totals, including precincts in Eaton and Calhoun counties, are 1,047 for Hoaglin and 713 for Johnson.